| Rapid suppression and sustained activation of distinct cortical regions for a delayed sensory-triggered motor response V Esmaeili*, K Tamura*, SP Muscinelli, A Modirshanechi, M Boscaglia, ... Neuron 109 (13), 2183-2201.e9, 2021 | 71 | 2021 |
| A taxonomy of surprise definitions A Modirshanechi, J Brea, W Gerstner Journal of Mathematical Psychology 110, 102712, 2022 | 51* | 2022 |
| Novelty is not Surprise: Human exploratory and adaptive behavior in sequential decision-making HA Xu*, A Modirshanechi*, MP Lehmann, W Gerstner, MH Herzog PLoS Computational Biology 17 (6), e1009070, 2021 | 42 | 2021 |
| Learning in Volatile Environments with the Bayes Factor Surprise V Liakoni*, A Modirshanechi*, W Gerstner, J Brea Neural Computation 33 (2), 269-340, 2021 | 40 | 2021 |
| Trial-by-trial surprise-decoding model for visual and auditory binary oddball tasks A Modirshanechi, MM Kiani, H Aghajan NeuroImage 196, 302-317, 2019 | 29 | 2019 |
| Election Vote Share Prediction using a Sentiment-based Fusion of Twitter Data with Google Trends and Online Polls. P Kassraie*, A Modirshanechi*, HK Aghajan Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Data Science, Technology …, 2017 | 28* | 2017 |
| Surprise and novelty in the brain A Modirshanechi, S Becker, J Brea, W Gerstner Current opinion in neurobiology 82, 102758, 2023 | 21 | 2023 |
| Curiosity-driven exploration: foundations in neuroscience and computational modeling A Modirshanechi, K Kondrakiewicz, W Gerstner, S Haesler Trends in Neurosciences 46 (12), 1054-1066, 2023 | 20 | 2023 |
| Brain signals of a Surprise-Actor-Critic model: evidence for multiple learning modules in human decision making V Liakoni*, MP Lehmann*, A Modirshanechi, J Brea, A Lutti, W Gerstner, ... NeuroImage 246, 118780, 2022 | 15 | 2022 |
| Fitting summary statistics of neural data with a differentiable spiking network simulator G Bellec*, S Wang*, A Modirshanechi, J Brea, W Gerstner Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
| Even if suboptimal, novelty drives human exploration A Modirshanechi, WH Lin, HA Xu, MH Herzog, W Gerstner bioRxiv, 2025 | 11* | 2025 |
| Distributed and specific encoding of sensory, motor, and decision information in the mouse neocortex during goal-directed behavior A Oryshchuk, C Sourmpis, J Weverbergh, R Asri, V Esmaeili, ... Cell Reports 43 (1), 2024 | 10 | 2024 |
| Centaur: a foundation model of human cognition M Binz, E Akata, M Bethge, F Brändle, F Callaway, J Coda-Forno, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.20268, 2024 | 4 | 2024 |
| Merits of curiosity: a simulation study L Gruaz*, A Modirshanechi*, S Becker, J Brea PsyArXiv, 2024 | 2 | 2024 |
| Remembering the "When": Hebbian Memory Models for the Time of Past Events J Brea, A Modirshanechi, G Iatropoulos, W Gerstner bioRxiv, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
| Learning is a fundamental source of behavioral individuality R Manna, J Brea, GV Braga, A Modirshanechi, I Tomić, AM Jakšić bioRxiv, 2024.08. 30.610528, 2024 | 1 | 2024 |
| Computational models of intrinsic motivation for curiosity and creativity S Becker, A Modirshanechi, W Gerstner Behavioral and Brain Sciences 47, e94, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Representational similarity modulates neural and behavioral signatures of novelty S Becker, A Modirshanechi, W Gerstner bioRxiv, 2024.05. 01.592002, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Seeking the new, learning from the unexpected: Computational models of surprise and novelty in the brain A Modirshanechi EPFL, 2024 | | 2024 |
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